Article June 24, 1996 Issue

A QUESTIONS & ANSWERS EXCHANGE

Several months ago, this column included some questions without answers. We invited readers to respond from their own study and daily experience in seeking to understand God. This column, and columns in future weeks, offer excerpts from some of the many answers we received to those questions.

Q. If disease is mental, does that mean people who are sick "deserve" it?—from an inquirer in Ohio

A. No one deserves to be sick. God sends His good to all—"on the just and on the unjust," as the Bible says (Matt. 5:45)—because He is Love and His love is universal, impartial, and omnipotent. Holding our thought to the standard of perfect God and perfect man, we find healing, and thus the question of deserving sickness becomes irrelevant.—from a reader in Louisiana

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